Rain and Retirement

I am really enjoying my retirement.  I have a list in my head of things that I need to do and if I get to one of them every day I feel accomplished.  I don't ever set a goal of more than one thing per day because I know I don't have the energy that I used to have.  If I get out before Noon I'm content and if I get in by 5PM I'm very happy.  Things always take longer than I anticipate these days.  I spent four hours putting chains on the lawn tractor the other day. It should have been a simple job, but it wasn't.

I don't set the bar very high at all on rainy days. I always have to take care of the horses and sometimes I don't even go out there until late afternoon.  This may horrify some of you that I only look in on them once a day when it is raining, but I have them covered.  I installed WiFi cameras so I can check on them with my phone at any time.  I can see how much hay they have and how much mucking out needs to be done.  I can even hit the mic switch and talk to them if I like.  I can even hit their mic switch to see if they have anything to say to me. They aren't normally very talkative. That's one thing I do like about them. The cameras also have night vision so I can see them in the dark.

Hopefully the rains will end soon and I'll be able to put them out in one of the fields that they haven't totally ruined.  Horses are hard on wet soil.  I'm running out of room in the manure storage bin. 

Like the horses I want to get out as well.

Anticlimax

 OK, for the few of you who replied I was hoping to share with you a new direction for the Astoria Rust blog.  I was going to move all of this into a You Tube vlog.  I spend a lot of time on You Tube these days.  It's my on-demand source for entertainment and education.  It's a good format, but I've made some attempts at starting the filming process with an iphone and a Gopro and I couldn't stand it.

The stuff I'm watching has at least some technique and editing, but have you ever tried using a video editor?  It's a nightmare.  Maybe I'm showing my age, but as a Boomer I've coped and overcome tech challenges since I owned my first Sinclair computer, my Apple I and Apple IIe.  I continued overcoming challenges with my IBM-XT and DOS its amazing 10MB hard drive.  Then came Windows.  I noticed the beginning of my tech downfall after Windows 95 was replaced by Windows 98.  Since then it has been two decades of my barely treading the tech waters with all the new things such  Android, IOS, Windows 10, Linux and Unix...

Another deterrent from producing videos is that I can't stand the sound of my own voice.  I truly considered running my voice through a synthesizer program.  Maybe it would come off better sounding like Stephen Hawking.

I must say that I do miss blogging and miss many of the friends I made along the way in this on-line environment, though many are still with me on Facebook. Facebook has been a means of thoughtless communication for me.  It's easy with little writing required. Just a good place to post memes that echo my cynicism and sense of irony.

Yes, gone are the golden days of blogging, but I suppose I will continue on from time to time.  I refuse to blog on a daily basis like I used to.  It is a fine way to communicate, though I may tend to look like the wall paper in your grand mothers house from time to time.  Please bear with me.